Psychiatric medications, science, marketing, psychiatry in general, and occasionally clinical psychology. Questioning the role of key opinion leaders and the use of "science" to promote commercial ends rather than the needs of people with mental health concerns.

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I'd bet that at the right dosage regimen, seroquell would even prove to be highly effective in treating compulsive gambling, safe-cracking, homophobia, counter-revolutionary schizophrenia as diagnosed in the USSR, and even recidivist jaywalking.

Hell if Ken Lay had been on enough seroquell, he might be twichin' but not in prison.

As a mental health practitioner who has suffered severe clinical depression for more than twenty years, I can attest to Seroquel's transforming boost to my standard medication regimen. I never believed that I would break through my dysthymic baseline. I had a trial of Seroquel 25mg because I had a major depressive episode. During this three month trial I have taken a break from psychotherapy and my mood has truly never been better. The experience is very different than the more subtle shift in mood from antidepressents or a mood stabilizer.

I think your commentary is hilarious and often true, but I am living proof that 25 mg of Seroquel can dramatically improve quality of life. I have never remotely experienced such a positive effect from any other medicine.

it seems to work for me for depression, better than anything else including 8 weeks on st. john's wort. i have reservations about being on it (300mg per day), but when you've lived with debilitating depression, the benefits of feeling good outweigh the risks - i suppose if i want to continue to experience purgatory on earth i can always go off it. don't knock something until you've tried it:)

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